Systems

Create the RAM disk: diskutil erasevolume HFS+ “ramdisk” `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://1165430` (the magic number 1165430 is explained here as the number of 512 byte sectors. The string “ramdisk” is just the name of the disk, which will appear under /Volumes after creation) Write some stuff to the RAM disk: echo “hello RAM disk” > […]

Prepare the database by installing PL/Python and a function: CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS plpythonu; CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION hello_lp() RETURNS float[] AS $$ import subprocess output = subprocess.Popen ( [ “/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python”, “/usr/local/trystuff/hello_lp.py” ], stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.STDOUT ).communicate()[0] # Parse string of comma-separated floats return map(lambda x: float(x), output.split(“,”)) $$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

Here is a project I’m working on called the Web Co-Processor (credit for name goes to Marcos Vaz Salles). There is a demo you can try if you clone the project. Read the following four bullets and you’ll understand what the web co-processor is about: A person opens a webpage in his browser The webpage

As the title says, this post is just a filtering of todays proggit. Namely the posts that caught my interest that day.